Energy harvesting by sweeping voltage-escalated charging of a reconfigurable supercapacitor array

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-240

  Kim, Sehwan ^a   Chou, Pai H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP; CHARGING TIME; ENERGY HARVESTER; POWER CONDITIONS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SUPER CAPACITOR; SWITCH ARRAYS;

CAPACITORS; HARVESTERS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PUMPS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TOPOLOGY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 80052764880     PISSN: 15334678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISLPED.2011.5993642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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